HTC has made the pro-consumer move of partnering with popular DIY repair website iFixit to offer replacement parts, repair guides, and more for out-of-warranty headsets. The move contrasts with one of the company's major competitors, Oculus, which has opted...

Oculus Quest is the company's first mobile headset to offer full positional tracking, and also its first to be able to run a handful of top PC VR titles that have been ported to work with the headset. To...

The Commodore 64—a renowned 8-bit home computer system that debuted in 1983—may be approaching antique status at 34 years old, but one enthusiast has seen fit to make sure it doesn't get left out of the VR craze. An enthusiast...

OSVR has launched a display upgrade kit for the HDK headset which allows users to swap a new, higher performance panel into their existing HDK headsets. The $220 screen upgrade kit, sold at the OSVR Store, offers HDK 1.3 &...

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was of course tinkering and prototyping ideas for VR HMDs long before the 2012 Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift DK1 propelled VR back into the spotlight. One of the Oculus Rift DK1's closest descendent prototype,...

Frank He lets his curiosity get the better of him as he tears apart his consumer Samsung Gear VR headset for your information and in the interests of science and for those perhaps interested in considering modifying their units. The 3rd...

Since publishing his popular DIY VR headset guide back in 2014, Austin "Ohaple" is back with his latest refinements to the project, allowing you use use your DIY headset (or an off-the-shelf viewer like Google Cardboard) to play PC...

OSVR announced today that 12 new partners have signed up to work with the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) headset, a so called "hacker dev kit" that is intended to be entirely hardware agnostic. Ubisoft, the video game studio best known for popular...

I am a big fan of open source stuff, so when I heard that Razer and Sensics have decided to team up to bring an open source virtual reality platform to the VR space, I knew I had to...

International developers have been waiting patiently to buy Samsung's Gear VR mobile headset internationally ever since the US release on December 8th. Many of them have their virtual reality applications ready to go, yet they have no way...

The University of Pennsylvania's winter hackathon, PennApps, is now over, and we're not surprised to see a few VR experiences in the winners circle. Brand Killer, an application running on a custom-built VR headset, was unfortunately not among them, but...

As a developer, one of the most difficult challenges is getting your hands on the actual hardware you are developing for. Samsung's Gear VR is slowly trickling out to non-US countries, but it may be months before some folks...

I sent my wife, Elizabeth, to the store to gather up all of the items we needed to build Google Cardboard from scratch. An hour later, we had it built and in this episode of the Rev VR Podcast,...

Not everyone can drop a few hundred dollars on a VR headset, but that doesn't mean they can't experience VR! For those with the time and a bit of handiwork skill, this DIY guide from guest writer Ohaple will...

While the average IPD (interpupillary distance -- the distance between your pupils) is around 63mm, there are those on the edges of the spectrum that can have an IPD as high as 78mm or as low as 52mm. And...